So ... the Whif is that she didn't sink? Don't get me wrong - wicked good modeling & painting skills there.

She didn't sink but stayed afloat for 6 days, and was under tow to South Georgia when she sank due to water leaking in in rough seas. However during those 6 days much work was done to recover equipment but also record and examine the damage from which lessons were learntSheffield was a batch 1 Type 42 and strangely Argentina had 2 with the distinctive horns on the funnel. Had she got to South Georgia it might have been a different story

No fault on you Buzzbomb, but there is a flaw in the original model kit. The wide section of 01 deck behind the boats, which overhangs the deckhouse and goes out to the edge of the main deck, wasn't present on Sheffield. If you look at the picture of Sheffield, you can see that it was originally only the width of the deckhouse itself. The rear portion of this area was widened to accommodate the triple torpedo tubes, but Sheffield was never fitted with those (they weren't ready in time: HMS Amazon had the same problem). The whole length of the deck was only widened on one of the Argentine ships (in order to mount Exocets) and on the Batch III ships. Batch Is and IIs had the area vacated by the boats widened when the boats were replaced with twin 30mm AAA guns after the Falklands. This error is probably due to Skywave using a mix'n'match selection of sprues to build all the different ships, batches and modifications of the Type 42 and they missed this subtlety.

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